By Philadelphia Tribune Staff U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, D-3rd District, has secured House passage of his legislation designed to improve diversity at the nation’s military service academies and his bipartisan legislation to reauthorize a Delaware River basin conservation program. Both of Evans’ legislative initiatives passed the House as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, […]

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, D-3rd District, secured House passage of his legislation designed to improve diversity at the nation’s military service academies and his bipartisan legislation to reauthorize a Delaware River basin conservation program. Both of Evans’ legislative initiatives passed the House as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, considered to be […]

Washington, D.C./Boston, MA – On Monday, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Nikema Williams (D-Ga.) introduced the Youth Voting Rights Act, which would expand youth access to voting. This legislation is co-sponsored in the Senate by Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), […]

Florida Representative Ted Deutch and U.S. Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick, Brad Schneider, and Andrew Garbarino led 88 other Democratic and Republican Representatives in sending a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas urging additional and urgent action to combat antisemitism and prosecute antisemitic hate crimes. “Only by working together, across all branches and levels of […]

When the pandemic hit two and a half years ago, many small businesses in Philadelphia struggled to take their operations online. The digital divide was very clear, said Maura Shenker, the director of the Temple University’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC). Some businesses didn’t even have a website; how could they be expected to pivot to ecommerce when much […]

Following Saturday’s federal passage of the Bipartisan Safer Community Act, Pennsylvania is one of many states considering adopting so-called ‘red flag’ laws. Pennsylvania Congressman Dwight Evans and Pennsylvania state Senator Art Haywood held a press conference this morning to urge the creation of a red flag bill. If passed, Pennsylvania would receive $750 million for violence […]

With the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on Friday, June 24, 49 years of federally-protected abortion rights are gone. What’s left is an extremely uncertain, and patchwork landscape of rights depending on the state and what party controls its government. Currently, Pennsylvania is a state where abortion will remain available per Governor Tom Wolf, who […]

The reaction in Pennsylvania to the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was swift on both sides Friday. The Women’s Law Project, a nonprofit that fights for abortion rights in Pennsylvania, called the decision “catastrophic to reproductive rights” in a released statement, criticizing the high court for serving “special interests instead of justice.” The nonprofit said […]

The U.S. Supreme Court — with a conservative majority — on Friday ruled in favor of a Mississippi law directly challenging the landmark Roe v. Wade decision by making most abortions illegal after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito, is the highest court’s most consequential decision on abortion rights in decades, leaving decisions […]

Jalil Frazier’s text was urgent. “I really need your help.” Even before I sent a reply, I had a pretty good idea what was behind his plea. Frazier and I first connected in 2018, a few months after he was shot and paralyzed while trying to shield a cluster of children from a gunman’s bullets […]